Standing in Blood.

[RattyDog]

I'm a little confused....there seem to be two figures being thrown out, re: the number of civilian Iraqi deaths.

The death toll that come a little closer to the million mark, makes the most sense to me...I just can't see how, in all of this, it could be that we've not murdered that many people over there. But in a lot of articles I'm reading, the number thrown out is closer to 75,000 dead Iraqi civilians. Both numbers are atrocious...but is there any reason why I shouldn't believe the higher number? It seems credible to me....why the difference? Is it just that some people are choosing to go by gov't figures that have been thrown out or what? There is such a wild difference between the two figures, why?

Anyone have any insight?

[J’raxis 270145]

The 75,000 figure probably comes from the Iraq Body Count site. The much larger figure probably comes from the the Lancet study.